Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell place Trump as the principal player in the conspiracy to delegitimize election.
One of Donald Trump’s former attorneys has told prosecutors in Georgia that a top aide informed her that the former president was „not going to leave“ the White House despite losing the 2020 election, according to video recordings obtained by The and ABC News.
The disclosure emerged in a confidential interview with the attorney, Jenna Ellis, who spoke with Fulton County investigators. The onetime Trump lawyer pleaded guilty to one count of “aiding and abetting false statements and writings,” last month in exchange for her testimony.
She informed prosecutors that Dan Scavino, who served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff at the time, remained undeterred by her assessment that the president was running out of options to contest Joe Biden’s victory and told her „the boss“ would refuse to leave the White House.
“And he said to me, you know, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,’” Ellis said in the video.
The newspaper also obtained portions of statements from lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, and Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall. Their videos provided insight into previously undisclosed details about the attempts made by Trump and his allies to overturn his defeat.
Powell in her proffer detailed her plans regarding the nationwide seizure of voting machines and asserted that she was in frequent communication with Trump throughout her efforts to overturn the 2020 election—although both now assert that she was never his attorney.
As prosecutors pressed her on why Trump was looking to her for legal advice and ignoring the counsel of White House attorneys and others who told him that he had lost the election, Powell said “we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the White House.
